By SusanUnPC on Mar 25, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Lobbyists, Martin Luther King, Nadhmi Auchi, Rashid Khalidi, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Tony Rezko, William Ayers | 59 Comments
Obama Sexy Lies (No Music) Part 1 — by quervodrinker, another fine video artist:
By Fleaflicker on Mar 19, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bush/Cheney, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko | 39 Comments
On this sad 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq it is time to come clean, time to set the record straight and time to unify in our heartfelt deep opposition to this war. Unintended collateral damage is an inevitable consequence of war. Sometimes innocents are destroyed. That is just the nature of it all. [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 11, 2008 in Alsammarae, Aiham, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko | 117 Comments
We have written scores of stories here about Obama’s 20+-year association with known slumlord and political “fixer” Antoin “Tony” Rezko, now on trial in Chicago’s federal court. My earlier story tonight gives you the latest findings from the trial testimony today and from the hard work by many bloggers to unearth the facts. But these [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 10, 2008 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko | 26 Comments
Here, from Friday night’s McLaughlin Group on PBS, you’ll hear much speculation on the Rezko trial and Obama (transcript). As a regular viewer, I always pay attention to what John McLaughlin focuses on since he’s pretty sharp. He was alone on the panel the previous Friday in predicting that Hillary would win both Texas and [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 9, 2008 in Austan Goolsbee, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, David Axelrod, NAFTA, Nadhmi Auchi, Samantha Power, Tony Rezko | 76 Comments
Larry Johnson writes that “Obama and His Advisors [Are] Not Ready for Prime Time.” Truer words, truer words — but the thing is that they ARE his primary advisers, minus the now-guillotined Samantha Power. And there’s that he needs more than the usual number of advisers because he has a tendency to push the wrong [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 6, 2008 in Barack Obama, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko | 58 Comments
Below, today’s references to Barack Obama in the gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Rezko trial, and a Chicago ABC TV station’s interview today of a dodgy Barack Obama who claimed he hadn’t had dealings with Rezko since the slumlord’s troubles “began.” Pinnochio’s gonna need some more wood. It’s like Obama saying, earlier, that he won Michigan, [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 5, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Iraq, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko | 91 Comments
UPDATE, A RANT: Some people are suggesting that, if Obama does not come up in the Rezko trial, that that is reason to drop the subject. To which I have this to say: Even IF there is no wrongdoing in a legal sense — or, more precisely, any legal problem that is relevant to U.S. [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 5, 2008 in Barack Obama, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko | 26 Comments
“Sen. Obama, time to call us about Rezko: (312) 321-2417,” Chicago Sun-Times, March 6, 2008: Jury selection began Monday in the trial of political influence peddler Tony Rezko. This would be the time — before a single witness takes the stand — for Barack Obama to finally share every detail of his relationship with Rezko. [...]
By SusanUnPC on Feb 26, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Nadhmi Auchi, Patrick Fitzgerald, Tony Rezko | 111 Comments
UPDATE: Jeralyn at TalkLeft writes up the Rezko trial (and she is going to cover it, which is terrific since she is an attorney and has covered trials for the ‘net many times – subscribe to their RSS feed): “Rezko Trial Set to Begin: Implications for Barack Obama.” Jeralyn covers some of what I have [...]
By SusanUnPC on Feb 14, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko | 34 Comments
From the UK’s TimesOnline: “Obama bagman is sent to jail over $3.5m payment by British tycoon“: An undeclared $3.5 million (£1.8 million) payment from a corrupt Iraqi-British businessman has landed Barack Obama’s former fundraiser behind bars. The payment, disclosed in court papers, is the first time that Mr Obama’s long-serving bagman Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a [...]